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Fiction

Wordle-Inspired Game of Deception

Guess The Word With Unreliable Hints!

Fiction is a Wordle-inspired game of deception. One player is the Lie-brarian and will choose a secret word from a classic work of literature. All the other players work as a team to guess that secret word as quickly as possible.

The Lie-brarian will tell the players if their letters are present in the word. Be careful, though, as each clue will have one letter be a lie!

Use logic, literacy and deduction to see through the Lie-brarian's fiction!

Time to play
20 min
Players
2 - 8
Main Mechanic
Words
Ages
10+
Series
Fun for Everyone
Box Size
Medium[?]
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Strategy

Remember, There's Always a Lie!

Be careful making deductions.

Try not to make concrete statements about the nature of the word before you’ve confirmed it. If you have time, take a scientific approach and change one variable at a time. This minimizes the Lie-brarian’s attempts at deception!

Conversely, Lie-brarians, capitalize on “known” letters!

If the players are convinced something’s right, don’t touch it! Try and reinforce this behavior, at least until they’ve used up too many turns to correct their mistake.

Game Overview

How To Play

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1. Lie-brarians, Choose a Word From Eight Classic Books

Will you choose Little Women, Moby Dick, A Study in Scarlet?

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2. Players, Make a Guess About the Word

Quick, you’ve got ten minutes or ten guesses to figure it out!

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3. Lie-brarians, Give The Players Clues About Their Guess

Wordle rules apply! Make EXACTLY one lie about the clues to throw the guessers off.

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4. Players, Be Careful! What is Fact or Fiction?

Use all your deduction skills to outwit the Lie-brarian!

Components

What's Inside The Box

We squeezed a lot of game into our tiny box size!

  • A
    2 Dry-Erase Markers
  • B
    56 Book Cards
  • C
    1 Lie-brarian Board
  • D
    60 Clue Tokens
  • E
    10 Guess Boards (5 Blue, 5 Tan)
  • F
    1 Alphabet Board
  • G
    3 Fact/Fiction Tokens
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Guess Boards

Dry-erase, because you’re going to want to play this one over and over.

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Clue Tokens

As the Lie-brarian, use these strategically to trick your friends!

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Fact Or Fiction Tokens

Players, check your Lie-brarian’s clues with three of these tokens per game!

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Book Cards

Choose your five-letter word from timeless pieces of literature.

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Creators

Peter Hayward

Game Designer

Peter C. Hayward is an Australian board game designer who likes cool stuff and fun.

Anca Gavril

Illustration and Graphic Design

She has a poster featured in the Board Game Geek Artist series. Her husband and children are always involved in the projects, from mandatory play testing and prototyping, to artistic suggestions.

Daniel Profiri

Illustration

Whenever he's not illustrating board games, he's drawing photorealistic portraits and working on interior design projects.

John Brieger & Michael Dunsmore

Game Development

Brieger Development is an independent studio of boardgame developers specializing in helping publishers, licenseholders, and designers turn prototypes into marketable products. Founded by former Apple Inc. designer John Brieger, they leverage deep knowledge on product development processes & design research to get games rigorously tested with a broad set of players.

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MSRP

Fiction

5" x 5" x 2"

12.3 oz.

GME-FIC

618149323289

$20